| “ | Grand Prince of all Rus. | ” |
| —Age of Empires IV description | ||
Ivan III of Moscow (also known as Ivan the Great) is a heavy melee infantry leader in the The Rise of Moscow campaign of Age of Empires IV. He appears in the Fall of the Novgorod Republic and Great Stand on the Ugra River scenarios of the State to Empire chapter. He was the Grand Prince of Moscow and the Sovereign of all Rus' from 1462 to 1505.
Ability[]
Production (Active): Rallies nearby allied buildings to produce units and research technologies for 15 seconds.
Campaign appearances[]
The Rise of Moscow[]
- Fall of the Novgorod Republic: Ivan III leads the Muscovite forces in the conquest of Novgorod and its outlying towns.
- Great Stand on the Ugra River: Ivan III once again leads the Muscovite forces in this scenario. They must defend two fords on the Ugra River from Mongol assaults, before going on the offensive.
History[]
Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blind father Vasily II from the mid-1450s before he officially ascended the throne in 1462.
He multiplied the territory of his state through war and through the seizure of lands from his dynastic relatives, ended the dominance of the Tatars over Russia, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, introduced a new legal code, and laid the foundations of the centralized Russian state. His victory over the Great Horde in 1480 is often cited as the restoration of Russian independence, 240 years after the fall of Kiev in the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'.
Ivan was the first Russian ruler to style himself "tsar", albeit not as an official title. Through marriage to Sofia Paleologue, he made the double-headed eagle Russia's coat of arms and adopted the idea of Moscow as the third Rome. His 43-year reign was the second longest in Russian history, after that of his grandson Ivan IV.
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